Academy of Management Discoveries:

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What is the mission of AMD?

The mission of AMD is to publish phenomenon-driven empirical research that theories of management and organizations neither adequately predict nor explain. Data on these poorly-understood phenomena can come from any source, including ethnographic observations, lab and field experiments, field surveys, meta-analyses, construct validation research, and replication studies. AMD welcomes exploratory research at the pre-theory stage of knowledge development, where it is premature to specify hypotheses, and which generates surprising findings likely to stimulate and guide further exploration and analysis. This research must be grounded in rigorous state-of-the-art methods, present strong and persuasive evidence, and offer interesting and important implications for management theory and practice.

AMD is published quarterly in March, June, September, and December.

Accordingly, AMD publishes management research guided by empirical abduction and induction, or in other words, studies which use data exploration in order to:

Surface significant new or emerging phenomenon using any number of empirical approaches including rich description, quantitative construct validation, and/or empirical taxonomic analyses.

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Identify and explore surprising relationships using rigorous qualitative and/or quantitative methods in order to develop plausible explanations for those relationships and provide a grounded basis for innovative theorizing.

Studies that leverage the data to offer plausible explanations for the mechanisms underlying these relations and/or the conditions governing them are likely to be published as full-length papers.

Studies simply exposing stylized facts and providing evidence of their consistent and non-spurious nature without examining mediators or moderators are likely to be published as “Discoveries-in-Brief".

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Leverage original, secondary or “big” data and any number of alternative approaches (including lab and field/quasi-experiments, meta-analyses and replication studies) in order to offer empirically-driven insights into and/or a plausible resolution of critical anomalies and discrepant findings.

AMD publishes articles that present strong and persuasive evidence to inform readers about interesting and important phenomena with clear and timely implications for understanding and improving management and organizations. More information may be found here.

This video highlights the difference between AMD and conventional management journals. Providing insight into empirical exploration and how it links to theory development, this video will help scholars better understand the mission of AMD, how it fits into the portfolio of AMD publications, and the benefits AMD offers to its authors.

What we look for: The Importance of Surprise; Using Data to Fill Gaps in Theory; Plausible Explanations; Rigor; Abductive Reasoning

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